Program Details
2026-11-10 14:30:00
Over 1,000+ webinars
Course Overview
2026-11-10 14:30:00
2h CLE Credits
Intermediate
2
2:30 pm - 3:30 pm ESTThe ER CT is the wrong scan for mild TBI, and a radiologist who spends ten minutes on several thousand images can miss what an hour-long joint review finds. This session builds the case from the scan forward: choosing among MRI with DTI, Neuroquant, SWI, and GRE, PET, fMRI, and qEEG, and when sending the client to Europe saves money. It covers reviewing the images live with a neuroradiologist who documents every lesion by series and slice, then retaining a physiatrist for a full neurological exam and a compassionate therapist the jury will trust. Before depositions, it protects the case with social media and records audits, recording the defense exam and neuropsychological testing, and subpoenaing test manuals and raw data. It closes by dismantling the defense playbook: malingering tests that fail Daubert scrutiny, the claim that every mild TBI recovers, the missed ER diagnosis, and the “normal” MRI, including audit trails that show whether the expert ever opened the scan.
Dorothy Clay Sims 3:40 pm - 4:40 pm ESTDefense medical experts routinely present five opinions as settled science, yet a review of more than 800 defense-retained evaluations over three decades found no peer-reviewed support for them. This session takes each myth apart: no blow to the head, no loss of consciousness, a GCS of 15, no focal neurological findings, and no structural change on imaging. For each one, you get the science behind the rebuttal, from rotational forces that shear axons at the gray-white junction and injury that evolves over hours to days, to the limits of a triage scale, an abbreviated ER exam, and 1 mm MRI resolution against 0.1 micron axons. You also get the ACRM, CDC, and VA authorities to use as exhibits, plus the cross-examination questions and discovery that expose each opinion, including 911 calls, ER time stamps, and EMR audit trails. It closes with practice steps: building an organized evidence library, verifying every AI-generated citation, and challenging the expert’s foundation through prior reports and Daubert and Frye motions.
Oregon K. Hunter Jr.Dorothy Clay Sims consults daily with attorneys throughout the United States on the cross-examination of defense medical experts, and she deposes those experts herself when an attorney requests it. Her work extends to cases involving brain damage, a subject on which she has spoken and published extensively. She sits on the board of the American Association for Justice Traumatic Brain Injury Litigation Group. Her practice is based in Ocala, Florida.
Oregon K. Hunter Jr., MD, has treated traumatic brain, CRPS, and spinal injuries for more than 40 years and ran a brain injury program in Hawaii. As part of Dorothy Clay Sims’s team, he works with lawyers to determine whether a defense medical expert’s report misrepresents the science or the facts. His recent published research addresses the scientific limitations of common causation opinions in spinal and traumatic brain injury litigation.
Dorothy Clay Sims consults daily with attorneys throughout the United States on the cross-examination of defense medical experts, and she deposes those experts herself when an attorney requests it. Her work extends to cases involving brain damage, a subject on which she has spoken and published extensively. She sits on the board of the American Association for Justice Traumatic Brain Injury Litigation Group. Her practice is based in Ocala, Florida.
Oregon K. Hunter Jr., MD, has treated traumatic brain, CRPS, and spinal injuries for more than 40 years and ran a brain injury program in Hawaii. As part of Dorothy Clay Sims’s team, he works with lawyers to determine whether a defense medical expert’s report misrepresents the science or the facts. His recent published research addresses the scientific limitations of common causation opinions in spinal and traumatic brain injury litigation.
Requirements
The Alabama State Bar MCLE Commission requires attorneys to complete 12 credits, including 1 ethics, by December 31 of each year. All credits must be reported by February 15 of the following year. A maximum of 12 credits, including 1 ethics credit, may be carried over for 1 year only.
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